Play Hatch
UK19990815_C15 August 1999·Play Hatch, Oxfordshire·wheat
Reported 15 August 1999 in wheat at Play Hatch, Oxfordshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 15 August 1999 (day precision)
- place
- Play Hatch
Oxfordshire
England - crop
- wheat
- size
- 69 ft (21.0 m) across
as written: 21 m | 69 ft - recorded by
- cc
- images
- 1 · 1 diagram
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
Also called
Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 51.479358, -0.934637
- how it was got
- os open names
place, to within 2,000 m, from the cc record - on a map
- OpenStreetMap
No source publishes a coordinate for any formation in this archive. Every coordinate here is derived from the place name a source printed, and this page says how precise that makes it rather than rounding it away.
Images
1 image(s) on this formation's own source records. Click a tile for the full image; the bytes are fetched when you ask for them and are not stored in this page.
Diagrams (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 49.5 KiB image/jpeg |
image 66522698fcc7 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1999/199908.html |
Date
15 August 1999, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 15 August 1999
- weekday
- Sunday, day 227 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
- sun and moon
- 39.0 days before the September equinox; moon waxing crescent (18% lit), 11.5 days before the full moon (computed at 12:00 UTC; a reported date is a discovery date, not a creation date)
Place
What each source printed, and the coordinate derived from it. No source in this archive publishes a coordinate of its own.
- coordinate
- 51.479358, -0.934637 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Oxfordshire | England | 51.479358, -0.934637 place / os_open_names |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 69 ft (21.0 m)
- size as written
- 21 m | 69 ft
Source records
What each source published, side by side. A row whose values differ across the sources is marked: the archive prints the disagreement rather than choosing a winner.
| field | cc cropcirclecenter.com |
|---|---|
| id / slug | UK19990815_C |
| name | Play Hatch |
| location | |
| county | Oxfordshire |
| country | England |
| date reported | 1999-08-15 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 21 m | 69 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 69 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1999/199908.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/a619a2697a223… raw record view: /formation/cc/a619a2697a2233cf51a8c395fd407dd79bbe35c5691ffc939160a8c4449cb688 in the preview app |
Texts
no text documents in the archive for this formation
Claims about this formation
no claim was extracted from a text about this formation
Geometry
1 diagram file(s) on this page. measured from the diagram itself, and experimental: the extractor's rotational order is right on 88.8 % of a 200-diagram hand-labelled set against a gate of 90 %, so read a number here beside the picture rather than instead of it.
| diagram | rotational symmetry | elements | rings | mirror | fill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc 66522698 | ≈ 2-fold score 0.978 | 3 | 2 | 0.996 | 0.4689 |
Experimental, and marked ≈ wherever it appears. These numbers are read off a drawing, not off the field: the extractor's rotational order agrees with a hand-labelled set on 88.8 per cent of 200 diagrams against a gate of 90 per cent, its element count is within one on 97.5 per cent, and its ring count is not calibrated at all. Nothing in the analysis tree is derived from the rotational order while that gate is unmet.
Diagrams that look like these: cc 66522698— the nearest by perceptual hash. The whole archive is browsable by shape in the shape section, and this formation's own diagrams go straight into that grid: show them in the grid.
Neighbours
In time
- previous
- Stanton St Bernard 14 August 1999, Stanton St Bernard
- next
- Shildon 16 August 1999, Shildon
- previous in UK
- Stanton St Bernard 14 August 1999
- next in UK
- Shildon 16 August 1999
- same day
- Faringdon (Faringdon) · Goodworth (Goodworth)
- within 7 days and 25 km
- none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Play Hatch
0 m away, 1999-07-22
CavershamJune 1995Caversham
3.1 km away, 1995-06
Caversham4 July 1996Caversham
3.1 km away, 1996-07-04
Shiplake26 June 1996Shiplake
3.5 km away, 1996-06-26
Shiplake4 July 1996Shiplake
3.5 km away, 1996-07-04
Reading19 August 1995Reading
3.9 km away, 1995-08-19
- same county and year
- Toot Baldon 24 May 1999 · Toot Baldon 24 May 1999 · Kiddlington 13 June 1999 · Toot Baldon 13 June 1999 · Asthall 21 July 1999 · Play Hatch 22 July 1999 · Garsington 23 July 1999 · Chilson 4 August 1999 · Faringdon 15 August 1999
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-11T19:20:39Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- none
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK19990815_C.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity e34935f63a17 · images bf730676b14c · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 7723c78f22fd